D1.8.71: [Untitled]
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Metadata
Title
D1.8.71: [Untitled]
Collection
Newspaper Clippings
Medium
Printed newsprint glued on paper
Date
06 September 1866
Description
One cut-out column of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped).
Keyword
Livestock (ratio of), agriculture (critiquing development of), wool (East versus West)
Notes
Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. Bleek finds it peculiar that potatoes and oats aren't performing satisfactorily. According to Jancis Robinson (2006: 162-163), the phylloxera epidemic had reached the Cape by 1866.
Publisher
Van de Sandt de Villiers & Co.
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